After Maharashtra Chief Minsiter Uddhav Thackeray criticised Kangana Ranaut in his Vijayadashami speech on Sunday, it was the actress’ turn to hit back. Kangana on Monday took on the CM in a series of tweets.
“(Sanjay) Raut called me haramkhor now Uddhav (Thackeray) called me namak-haram (treacherous), he is claiming I won’t get food in my state if Mumbai does not give me shelter, shame on you I am your son’s age this is how you speak to a self-made single woman, Chief Minister you are the worse product of nepotism,” Kangana said.
“Chief Minister I am not drunk on my father’s power and wealth like you, if I wanted to be a nepotism product I could have stayed back in Himachal, I hail from a renowned family, I didn’t want to live off on their wealth and favours, some people have self-respect and self-worth (sic),” the actress added.
On Sunday, Uddhav Thackeray had attacked “those who abuse Mumbai by calling it Pakistan Occupied Kashmir”, without naming Kangana Ranaut. “People who have no means of livelihood in their home come to Mumbai and betray it. Calling Mumbai PoK is in fact the failure of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He had said he would get back PoK into India,” Thackeray said, adding that Maharashtra-haters had left no stone unturned in defaming the state.
“Mumbai is PoK, there are drug addicts everywhere—they are painting such a picture. They don’t know in our house we grow tulsi, not ganja (marijuana). Ganja fields are in your state, you know where, not in our Maharashtra,” he remarked.
Kangana had last month lashed out at the CM in a video addressing him and the Shiv Sena, which heads the Maharashtra government and controls the Mumbai civic body, of targeting her in a war of words over the Sushant Singh Rajput case. She had criticised the handling of the case by the Mumbai police and said she didn’t feel safe in the city.